I wrote this article a few months ago originally for Solstice Magazine, I thought I would share it and get some more insight from both sides of the industry, as mentioned in the article I am not “bashing” or “hating” on anyone in particular just merely presenting a point of …

Long before “Contouring” become a daily ritual, were Makeup Artists’ past and present performing this magical task without any of us realizing. Why is it now that there has been sooo much spotlight (or should I say highlight) surrounding his age old technique? Contouring and highlighting has been around for …

As far as beauty regimes go, one rule that is SO important yet often “forgotten” after one too many cocktails or just simply being lazy is removing your makeup before you go to bed. When we sleep, our skin does all weird and wonderful things to recover to make sure …

Every so often I am always after something that just works and doesn’t cost me a small fortune. I compiled a little list of my 10 MUST HAVE beauty products that I keep in my kit (and my hand bag) that are cost effective and actually work! In no particular …

In an ever growing world of self employment and self made/taught professions it can be quiet hard to sought the men from the mice (figuratively speaking) . Now I am not saying that self made or self taught is not as important as being trained or studying a craft, but …

Thanks to constantly evolving technology in cameras, lenses, software, makeup mediums and techniques we are seeing everything in High Definition/High Perfection. You only have to go to the App store to download the latest and greatest in “Photo filtering” to know we are perfection obsessed. As a Makeup Artist …

We have become so concealer obsessed lately (Thanks Instagram & YouTube!), that I thought it would be appropriate to share my thoughts on such a wonder product and to share some of my favorites. In my previous post The Perfect Base: My Foundation Must Haves I mentioned that when …

The perfect makeup will always start with the perfect base, (for my skin commandments click here) I Get asked quiet frequently what my favorite foundations are, when there are so many great products out there finding the right one that is perfect for you is difficult. As an artist I …